Disinfectant candle.



PATENTED JULY 16, 1907.

C. B. DOLGE.

DISINFECTANT CANDLE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.25, 1906.

CARL B. DOLGE, OF \YESTPORT, CONNECTICUT rides;

DISINFECTANT CANDLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 16, 1907.

Application filed January 25.1906- sorifll 297,796.

To all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that I, Cant B. Donna, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Westport, in the county of Fairticld and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Disinfectant Candles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in disinfectant devices, or candles socalled, such as are used to disinfect rooms, cars etc.

It is the purpose of my invention to provide an efficient 'and convenient disinfecting device that can be put upon the market all complete and ready for use, including the materials to be consumed, at a very low cost, and in a manuer which will permit of it being safely handled and used by inexperienced persons; to construct the device so as to permit of it being cheaply manufactured of inexpensive sheet metal, such as t n, to include a candle for treating the disinfectant Which is preferably used in the form of a powder or paste and which is heated and transformed into gas and discharged into the room.

With the above objects in view my invention re sides and consists in the novel construction and com bination of parts shown upon the accrmipanying drawings forming a part of this specification upon which similar characters ol reference denote like or correspending parts throughout the several figures and of which,

Figure 1, shows a side elevation of my novel device complete. Fig. 2, is a detail perspective view of the body of my device including the disinfectant re\.'ep-

tacle. Fig. 3, is a detached perspective view ol'tho cover of the device, shown in Fig. t. Fig. 4, is a furtherdctaii perspective view of the base or candle holder having a candle therein. Fig. 5, is a further detail perspective view of a concave shield for use within the candle holder. Fig. (5, is a central vertical cross section through my novel device and illustrating a [lat top instead of the cone top, shown in Figs. l and Cl. Fig. 7, is a detail perspective view of the top or cover shown in Fig. (i.

Referring in detail to the characters of reference marked npn i the drawing A indicates the body'or main portioii of the disinfecting device, which is of a cylindrical form constructed of sheet tin and contains ng ll on either side to allow air, and access to the candle. Within the upper portion of this body is supported a. pan or receptacle which is of a size and shape to lit into the upper portion of the body (see Fig. l therein by friction or solder an openi 2) and may he retainer as desired. This pan serves to retain the disinfectant powder or paste which is heated and transformed into gas, by the candle beneath and contained within the holder E. This holder like the pan 0 of the apparatus is cheaply constructed of tin in the form of a round pan having an rip-turned flange of a shape and size to retain the candle and snugly lit into the-lower portion of the body, where it is trictionally and adjust-ably held tr support the candle at the desired distance from the pair 1, and form a bottom for the device. Said holder is further provided with a concave shield H which fits in the upturned flange and contains a central opening I through which the wick and a portion of the wax of the candle extends. The purpose of this shield is to protect the wick of the candle from falling into the wax as the same becomes low nnd to insure the entire candle being consumed without danger of tire therefrom. In practice this shield is placed inthe holder before the wax or tallow for the candle is poured in, and consequently the said material from which the candle is formed tills in under and over the said ishield substantially as shown in Fig. 6.

The top I! of the device may be either conica'l as shown in Figs. 1. and 3 or flat as shown in Figs 6 and 7 and has a central opening G therein. This'top is attached to the body by means of a flange, which preferably fits intermediate of the top of body and receptacle as seen in Fig. 6, or may tit over the top edges of and engage the upper part of the body something after the style of that shown in Fig. l. g

When put upon the market, the opening G in the top is closed in any suitable way as for instance by having a piece of pap r J, pasted thereover in ainanner to retain the disinfectant powder within the device until such times as when it is to he used. With the removal of the paper and the lighting of the candle the disinfectant becomes heated and sends out a strong gas which emerges through the central opening which serves to deflect the same upward andcentral from the I device as will he obviously apparent.

in practice the audio can be lighted before it is inserted beneath the receptacle, but is preferably lighted whilethe candle is in place through the openings 13 on either side. The burning out of a single tallow candle ol' the size indicated in the drawing is sufiicient to consome the quantity of powdered disinfectant shown, of a formaldch de composition whielrl einployi l Having thus described my'invention what and desire to secure by Letters Patent is::

A disinfectant device comprising a cyitndrlcal sheet 100 meta'l body hltving openings. in its sides, a receptacle fitting i Signed ht Westpor t, in the county of Fairfield, and State 10 snugly in the open end of the body and adapted to contain of Connecticut this twenty second day of Nox'ember A. 1).,

the disinfectant, a candle holder fitting snugly in the lower 1905.

end of the body, a centrally perforated concave shield lo cated in the candle holder, :1 body of tallow located in the CARL B. DOLGE candle holder and completglydncasing said shield, and a wick passing centx nlly through the opening of the shield Witnesses:

and lying at its lower end directly upon the body of the CHAS. F. HIcNmucKs,

holder. KARL A. Down. 

